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by tankenmate 7mo ago
It's almost like Churchill's quip "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire". In other words, in some ways the JS ecosystem rushes to all the tech debt inducing "shiny shiny" and avoids a
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by tankenmate 7mo ago
Again looking back at the history of Unix, it used a 56 bit variant of DES encryption that used the user's password as the key. So only the first 8 characters of the password were used and the rest was silently unused, for example &quo
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by tankenmate 7mo ago
This decision long predates Linux. It's been a staple back to the earliest days of Unix; and it isn't a weird decision if you take into consideration of multi user systems in office environments that have non trivial security cons
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by tankenmate 7mo ago
Indeed a whole class of issues become moot if you just don't use javascript anywhere. In the browser world this is obviously difficult/impossible; I look forward to the day when WASM can run natively in a browser and doesn't
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Ryzen AI Pro 400 Series Desktop CPUs for AI-Focused Computing(phoronix.com)
1 points by tankenmate 8mo ago|0 comments
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by tankenmate 8mo ago
And not just token usage, expensive token usage; when it comes to tokens/joule not all tokens are equal. Efficient use of MoE architectures does have an impact on tokens/joule and tokens/sec.
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by tankenmate 8mo ago
Isn't it just so much easier to make sure that wealth isn't concentrated in so few hands? Tax wealth, not work. And before everyone gets upset, tax serves two purposes; 1) control inflation (it in effect burns money that was issue
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by tankenmate 8mo ago
There's a litany of such characters over the years; Al Dunlap comes to mind and his tenure at Consolidated Press Holdings.
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by tankenmate 8mo ago
Unless of course your job is writing an agent that uses an Anthropic model.
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by tankenmate 8mo ago
i just checked; no version 5 models listed in claude code yet
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by tankenmate 8mo ago
Some of the conclusions remind of the "ha ha only serious" joke that most people (obviously not the Monks themselves) had about Perl; "write only code". Maybe some of the lessons learnt about how to maintain Perl code mi
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by tankenmate 9mo ago
"The EU is more of a threat to itself than Russia is"; it can be easily argued that this is only the case if democracy has little value because in Russia democracy does indeed have little value (let alone life, etc). "Democra
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by tankenmate 9mo ago
"But you're basically arguing for not criticizing the status quo.", but that wasn't what was argued ("You should be able to insult and criticise the Prime Minister."), but more your interpretation of what was s
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Claude Code changes it's privacy settings and policy
4 points by tankenmate 9mo ago|0 comments
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by tankenmate 10mo ago
Hmm I use Firefox and the rendering I see in Firefox looks nothing like the render the author gets in Firefox; in fact the text rendering I get looks very similar to the "Chrome" rendering. Obviously this must depend on the librar
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by tankenmate 10mo ago
`Not a forcing function unless you’re levered`; but every one is levered, you aren't born with all the housing, food, and water you'll need for the rest of your life. Everyone is born with a net negative of the necessities of life
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by tankenmate 10mo ago
"Lai is a victim of this miscalculation."; I don't think Lai miscalculated, he knew what was coming and fought it anyway. "Authority comes from submission"; sure someone can threaten you with physical coercion, but
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Essay cheating at universities an 'open secret'(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by tankenmate 10mo ago|2 comments
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by tankenmate 11mo ago
So much of this article has two implicit tenets; 1) information can be "owned", and 2) copying information reduces its inherent value (which as I'll explain follows from the first). So as a preface, I would argue than in the
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by tankenmate 11mo ago
In a lot of ways this seems, from the outside, to be similar to "Planck's principle"; e.g. physics advances one funeral at a time.
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by tankenmate 11mo ago
For the most part LLMs choose "the most common" tokens; so regardless of whether the content was "AI content" or not, maybe you are getting tired of mediocrity. And of course also that mediocrity has now become so cheap
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by tankenmate 11mo ago
Apologies; if I could edit it I would.
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by tankenmate 11mo ago
One of my favourite books, I even read it a couple of times, even hacked around with xv6 (the x86 port of the edition 6 kernel[0][1], if you do hack around with it in a VM make sure to add HLT to the idle() function, if nothing else it will
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by tankenmate 11mo ago
It's a pity that the section on exceptions didn't do a more detailed analysis on the criticism of exceptions; in my personal view I haven't liked exceptions, in a similar vein to how I'm not a huge fan of the implementat
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by tankenmate 11mo ago
Not true, IP addresses are sold on, or even from time to time IP addresses are even leased (they can be transferred from RIRs, temporarily or permanently). Some times IP address ranges are registered with RIR but used in a different geograp
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by tankenmate 1y ago
"but if there's a cost to providing free support to the community like official container images, then it will get cut.", but here's the kicker, supporting creating docker images when you're on github is close to ne
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by tankenmate 1y ago
https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Cross-Site_Re...
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by tankenmate 1y ago
You're misunderstanding my point, the Sec-Fetch-Site is not a replacement for CSRF tokens (be they cookies (classic CSRF tokens, auth tokens, JWTs; all of these can be made to work for the client to prove to the server that they are
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by tankenmate 1y ago
Of course CSRF is a form of authorisation; "should I trust this request? is the client authorised to make this request? i.e. can the client prove that it should be trusted for this request?", it may not be "logging in" i
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by tankenmate 1y ago
You might want to read https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Cross-Site_Re...

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